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Jennifer Saunders, familiar to American TV audiences as the eccentric London public-relations specialist Edina Monsoon on the uproarious British sitcom “Absolutely Fabulous,” has been fighting breast cancer since discovering a lump last October.

Veteran American Paul Goydos has become just the fourth player in PGA Tour history to break the 60-shot barrier after carding a remarkable 12-under-par 59 in the opening round of the John Deere Classic on Thursday.

A Washington lawyer has filed a lawsuit in federal court, claiming he is the father of basketball star LeBron James.

A decade after critics first accused the Food and Drug Administration of downplaying side effects from Avandia, the agency says it will reveal on Friday the data it is reviewing ahead of an advisory panel meeting about the safety of the popular diabetes drug.

Parole officers saw and spoke to Jaycee Dugard during visits to the home of the man accused of holding her captive for 18 years, but they never questioned why she was there, California officials disclose in newly released documents.

Acclaimed Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev, who has been charged with sexually abusing a teen-aged boy in Thailand, will continue his concert schedule but will return to that country to appear in court, the musician’s spokeswoman said Thursday.

For more than 20 years an elusive killer dubbed the Grim Sleeper walked the streets of south Los Angeles, California.

BP is ahead of schedule on a relief well intended to stop the leak in the Gulf, but federal officials are sticking with mid-August as the “kill” time for the blown-out well.

Ten spy suspects pleaded guilty in federal court and will be deported to Russia, which in turn will release four prisoners to the U.S., a judge said.

Jeremy London’s alleged abduction by three armed men who then forced him to do drugs seems like a crazy story — and the former Party of Five star knows it.